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 Nancy Wake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM, Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre(x3), (born August 30, 1912), was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of World War II who fought alongside the maquis groups of the French Resistance.
Born Nancy Grace Augusta Wake in Wellington, New Zealand, her family moved to Australia in 1914.
In the night of April 29-30 1944 Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne and became a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Wake   (514 words)

  
 The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Warriors : Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake was born in the gusty heights of Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 August 1912 to Charles Augustus and Ella Rosieur Wake, the youngest of six children.
Nancy Wake, lives at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, but has recently expressed a desire to spend the remaining years of her life abroad, either in Britain, where many of her friends are, or France, where she rose to international fame during WWII (see postscript).
Nancy Wake’s comrade Henri Tardivat perhaps best characterised the guerrilla chieftain: "She is the most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts.
www.nzedge.com /heroes/wake.html   (2964 words)

  
 Nancy Wake hero file
Nancy Wake is a symbol of their struggle and their sacrifice.
Wake will soon be involved in the war effort, purchasing and driving a vehicle that she uses as an ambulance and to supply refugee camps ahead of the front line.
Wake and her colleagues in the SOE receive training in survival skills, armed and unarmed combat, explosives, Morse Code and radio operation, surveillance, and night parachuting.
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/wake.html   (2531 words)

  
 Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake was a strongly built girl with an exuberance and a zest for living which led some people to wonder whether she could really be equipped for the role of secret agent.
Australia's most decorated surviving war veteran, Nancy Wake, "the White Mouse", wishes to leave Australia and spend the remaining years of her life either in Britain - where many of her friends are - or France, where she rose to international fame during World War II.
Nancy Wake was arrested by French police and handled their interrogation skilfully.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEwake.htm   (1297 words)

  
 Finally, Nancy gets her gong - National - www.smh.com.au
Nancy Wake with her Companion of the Order of Australia, and a portrait of her as she was during the war.
Nancy Wake - the "White Mouse" who fought the Nazis - was today finally given Australia's highest civilian award - three years after telling the government it "could stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts".
Frail since a heart attack early last year and now living in a nursing home for ex-servicemen and women, Wake was buoyed by the presence of her old friends and had a message for young Australians.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/03/1078191357342.html   (553 words)

  
 Still resisting after all these years - smh.com.au
Nancy Wake sits barefoot by the window of a six-bed hospital ward, wearing a borrowed nightie and wrapped in a blanket.
Wake's doctors have told her friends that she is recovering and could be discharged in weeks.
The Stafford to which Wake refers is the exclusive Piccadilly Hotel - then the British and American Forces Club - which she first discovered in 1946 when she sauntered up to the bar for "a bloody good drink".
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/27/1046064162171.html   (1011 words)

  
 Youpi magazine. Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake was a great heroine of world war 2.
Nancy spent four days in jail where instead of having to sleep in a cell a kind policeman insisted she sleep on his desk with his coat over her.
Nancy then got rid of the only piece of incriminating evidence she had on her, a British five pound note signed by some escapees she had helped escape.
www.comcen.com.au /~mlsmet/Youpi/Articles/05-02/sophie-nancywakeeng.htm   (594 words)

  
 NANCY WAKE
Nancy Wake is one of the bravest women to fight in World War Two.
Nancy realised her carefree days were numbered after witnessing the cruelty of German Nazi soldiers during a visit to Vienna in 1933.
Determined to return to the fight in France, Nancy convinced the British government to train her as a professional spy.
www.abc.net.au /btn/australians/wake.htm   (614 words)

  
 Telegraph News Australia finally honours exploits of White Mouse
Nancy Wake seemed almost weighed down by the enormous glittering insignia placed around her neck.
Miss Wake was one of the bravest and most resourceful of that extraordinary band of men and women who made up the Special Operations Executive, the SOE, created to wage war in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Nancy came in and heard me and said 'you must be British'.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/03/wake03.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/03/ixworld.html   (792 words)

  
 Highest honour for 'white mouse' - National - www.smh.com.au
Nancy Wake, the World War II heroine and resistance fighter dubbed the "white mouse" by the Gestapo, is finally to be recognised by the Australian Government with the announcement she will be awarded the Order of Australia.
Ms Wake eventually fled France for Britain, where she was trained in explosives and combat, and was later parachuted back into France where she continued her heroic acts in battling the Germans.
For her actions Ms Wake has received a swag of medals from a number of foreign governments, including the French, British and US, but until now never her own, purportedly because she did not serve with the Australian armed forces, but with the British.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/22/1077384638740.html   (436 words)

  
 Wake, Nancy Grace Augusta - Australian Women Biographical entry
The award recognises the significant contribution and commitment of Nancy Wake, stemming from her outstanding actions in wartime, in encouraging community appreciation and understanding of the past sacrifices made by Australian men and women in times of conflict, and to a lasting legacy of peace.
Nancy Wake, whom the Gestapo code-named "the White Mouse" was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of World War II.
The youngest of six children, Nancy Wake came to Australia with her parents when she was 20 months old.
www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE0363b.htm   (335 words)

  
 Telegraph Arts Femme fatale
For this is Nancy Wake, the Australian-born wife of a rich Marseille businessman, whose exploits with the French Resistance make the fictional story of Charlotte Gray read like an Enid Blyton girls' school frolic.
For three years after the German invasion of France, Mme Nancy Fiocca (as she then was) acted as a courier and organiser for the Resistance, helping Allied servicemen and refugees escape from France over the Pyrenees to Spain.
I want to ask Nancy how she felt about such a calculated killing.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/02/19/bfgray17.xml   (1185 words)

  
 TIME Pacific Beyond Stardom June 25, 2001 NO. 25
Nancy Wake is in the spotlight, too, although-values being what they are-hers is not as bright as Fraser's.
Wake's public appearance in Sydney last week was a jarring reminder that people who leave normal lives to face and inflict death are never the same again.
Wake's enemies beat Jews in front of her eyes; they shot at her, and they tortured and killed her husband Henri Fiocca.
www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20010625/pacific.html   (687 words)

  
 Nancy Wake receives honour » ABC Perth
Nancy Wake said she hoped she was worth the award and could live up to the oath she made to Australia.
Now in her nineties, Nancy Wake was made a companion in the Order of Australia in a ceremony at Australia house in London by the Governor General, Major General Michael Jeffery.
Nancy Wake, dubbed the White Mouse, spent several years behind enemy lines, organising sabotage missions and helping up to a thousand Allied servicemen and women escape.
www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/s1058962.htm   (183 words)

  
 Scoop: Nancy Wake is a hero, no question about that
Nancy Wake has been honoured for services from other countries, which she justly deserves," Jim Anderton said from Paris today, where he is attending key agricultural and fishing meetings.
Nancy Wake left New Zealand for Australia as a toddler of two in 1916 and, as far as I know, did not live in New Zealand any time since.
Nancy Wake's association with New Zealand, on advice that I received, was slight.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0602/S00388.htm   (837 words)

  
 Women - WWII - UK - A-J
Nancy Wake-Fiocca ("Andreé") was an Australian national who was living in Marseilles when France fell in June 1940.
Nancy Wake: The Inspiring Story of One of the War's Greatest Heroines.
She joined the Resistance and had to flee France when the escape organization with which she was working was rolled up in March 1943.
intellit.muskingum.edu /women_folder/womenwwiiuka-j.html   (600 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days August 30 Robert Crumb Mary Shelley Frankenstein Modern Prometheus Nancy Wake White Mouse John Phillips
New Zealand, Nancy Wake came to Australia at the age of two, and left at the age of 22 for France because she and her mother did not get on.
Nancy Wake, codenamed ‘the White Mouse’, New Zealand-born Australian World War II heroine, the
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/aug30.html   (3151 words)

  
 Aviation Art - They Landed by Moonlight
Nancy Wake was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of WWII, Australia’s greatest war Heroine, and the Gestapo’s most-wanted person.
For more on Nancy, secure a copy of ‘The White Mouse’, or her more recent biography Nancy Wake.
Nancy’s story to succeed against impossible odds cannot be told in this limited space.
www.aviationart.com.au /LandedbyMoonlight.htm   (255 words)

  
 Fourwinds10.com - News - Spiritual > Hello Central -- "Hello, Central!" Nancy Tate Is Still Being Used By The Dark Agenda Folks. Am I Right Or Wrong?
Now in Nancy's wake-up message, Germain is supposedly telling us (if I understood it correctly) that we are in the process of advancing our state of ascenscion from 4D to 5D and that the Announcement cannot be made until after we reach 5D.
You are quite right in your assessment of the Nancy Tate Sunday, May 29, 2005 "Wake Up Call, St. Germain" and its sequel of Monday, May 30, 2005, "Message for All of You" from Tate.
Well, my friend, that is Nancy's choice, but she may be building a woodshed on another 3D planet in which to experience all over again.
www.fourwinds10.com /news/14-spiritual/K-hello-central/2005/14K-05-31-05-nancy-tate-is-still-being-used-by-dark-agenda-folks-am-i-right-or-wrong.html   (900 words)

  
 The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Warriors : Nancy Wake
The figure is repeated in Peter Fitzsimmon's book "Nancy Wake: A Biography of our Greatest War Heroine" (p233).
Re-your page on Nancy Wake under "Pitched Battle".
The quoted German losses come from Russell Braddon's book "Nancy Wake - The Story of a Great War Heroine" (p140).
www.nzedge.com /heroes/wake-figures.htm   (274 words)

  
 Scoop: Nancy Wake must be honoured
New Zealand-born Nancy Wake, who at the age of 93 is one of our greatest living war heroines, must be honoured now, says National's Veterans Affairs spokeswoman, Judith Collins.
Mr Anderton's comments belittle the immense courage and self-sacrifice of Nancy Wake and are an insult to every one of our veterans.
"Nancy Wake was and is a lot more than that," says Ms Collins.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0602/S00375.htm   (673 words)

  
 White Mouse finally gets her gong - National - www.theage.com.au
Wartime heroine Nancy Wake and Australia have finally made their peace.
In 2001, when Ms Wake left Australia for the last time and headed to London, she said she wanted to live out her days where she was appreciated.
Six decades after her daring exploits with the French Resistance in World War II, 91-year-old Ms Wake will receive her homeland's highest honour at a ceremony to be held in London early next month.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/22/1077384636758.html   (485 words)

  
 Dymocks Booksellers
As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street.
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris.
But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away.
www.dymocks.com.au /contentdynamic/full_details.asp?isbn=0732274567   (295 words)

  
 Resistance heroine's last stand
Now 90, Nancy Wake, who as a beautiful and daring resistance fighter was regarded as one of the bravest women of the Second World War, has told the staff that she is staying "until I die".
All around her are pictures of famous guests and on one wall is the face of the young, uniformed Nancy Wake.
In 1946 Miss Wake pitched up at the Stafford Hotel, which had been a British and American forces club during the war, and perched at the bar for a "bloody good drink".
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/840228/posts   (984 words)

  
 nzgirl - Nancy Wake
Then she is like five men.” A comrade in the French Resistance tells why Nancy, codenamed “the white mouse” was the most decorated servicewomen of WWII.
She gave up the life of luxury in Europe to become entangled in the fight against the Nazis and turned into the Gestapo’s most wanted person.
www.nzgirl.co.nz /articles/5384   (103 words)

  
 nancy wake
Nancy Wake, The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse (South Melbourne: Macmillan,1985)
Russell Braddon, Nancy Wake: the story of a very brave woman (London: Collins, 1956).
[Although Nancy Wake has only a brief mention, this book provides useful background to her wartime work in France.]
www.awm.gov.au /research/bibliographies/ww2/nancywake.htm   (117 words)

  
 The Story of Nancy Wake - classic cinema films on DVD from Eureka Video
After her own escape to England, Nancy was trained by S.O.E. as an agent and was parachuted back into occupied France to work and fight alongside some of the toughest Maquis fighters in the French Resistance.
At the war’s end Nancy’s adopted country France and the Allies decorated her for courage.
Her story is one of daring, of courage, of hardship and deep personal loss and sacrifice.
www.eurekavideo.co.uk /films/story_of_nancy_wake.asp   (299 words)

  
 Mohammed Mossadegh hero file
In the wake of the coup, hundreds of other National Front leaders, Tudeh Party officers, and political activists are also arrested, with some being sentenced to death.
After serving his sentence Mossadegh will be placed under house arrest in his Ahmad-Abad estate, where he will remain until he dies.
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/mossadegh.html   (4559 words)

  
 Charlotte Gray: The Time: Real Charlottes: More Information
All Nancy Wake references were recomended by Brian Sweeny, publisher of New Zealand Edge.
TV Australia: Naked Under Capricorn 96: Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake – Code Name: The White Mouse
charlottegraymovie.warnerbros.com /cmp/outside.html   (216 words)

  
 Nancy Wake - The White Mouse DVD
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Nancy Wake - The White Mouse release date: 2004-05-24
www.dvdhq.co.uk /documentary/ORA370   (1245 words)

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